But was slightly disappointed about how much he has rehashed from screenwipe/screen burn - right down to the quip about Super Sweet 16 being an al quaida training video (nice update with the horrifying Uk version though) - I'm also keeping a mental count of thinly veiled cries of 'I'm not ready for children yet Konnie', worthy of a drinking game :D
Quite hope he gets back to writing for TV at some point and very glad he's not been snapped up exclusively for Channel 4 shitefests

I was going to make a Deep Thread about relationships and love and how you feel about them, if you feel you've just settled, if you feel you'll never find a true love and will be forced to settle, what you imagine or hope the person you spend the rest of your life with will be like, or if you would be fine to spend the rest of your life alone, and so on - which would undoubtedly feature at least one "My relationship is great. Cheers", which would be thissed, and everyone would be able to tell that the user who wrote it is trapped in a staid, dull relationship.

I can't remember now what Brooker said at one point whilst walking in a field, but he said its like [something] and you only realise it wasn't [something] when you find the real [something]. (someone should help me fill in the blanks - crap memory)

I found the Love one so interesting because I've found myself saying to people recently "he'll do". Worrying.

if you've just watched the love episode, don't watch blue valentine* soon after...i'm not sure i'm ever going to have a relationship now.

*bit dissapointing, btw. some great moments, but it wasn't quite a full examination of a relationship, and it wasn't quite an impressionistic sketch of certain moments between two people falling in and out of love...it sort of fell into a bit of a no-mans land between the two, and so felt a bit lacking in depth as a result. still good mind, but not as good as i hoped.

Blue Valentine was depressing and rubbish. It just made you feel like even if you think someone is perfect for you and you're happy and have fun together, its all going to turn to shit soon enough so don't get your hopes up.

Then 'How TV Ruined Your Life' is Fray Bentos Meatballs... and I love them meatballs, I really do... but the level of reconstituted crap in both is alarming.

Yesterday's 'Love' theme rants struck me as rather trite for someone presumably 'happily engaged' - It didn't strike me as particularly thought provoking because I didn't believe for one minute it was remotely sincere, just playing the part of a better-than-you misanthrope who thinks he's being clever.

Brooker would love to be Adam Curtis, the major diff is of course that Curtis can be expansive when revisiting his work, whereas Charlie has repeddled his BA Hons 'aspirational telly' observations at least twice, if not more. For me, his appeal as some sort of oracle was always rather limited, rather his acerbic wit and unflinching approaches to television and popular culture was the main draw. Trouble is, in the ol' Screen Burn columns of yore, he'd think nothing of decimating the likes of Lauren Laverne or Davina McCall - now he wants to chummy up to these people and work with them. Which is understandable, from a professional standpoint. I just think that acidic temprament has been lost.

Also, why is he so distancing about video games? Games Wipe was a load of arse wipe, he talks about popular games like your dad who's vaguely heard of them... I don't see the point in being so coy and clandestine about something so fundamental to his journalistic career.